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Ways of counting in Micronesia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In many languages in Micronesia, clever ways of extending their counting systems to numbers far beyond imagination were developed in precolonial times. Here, we provide an exhaustive overview of these systems, highlight ... -
Ways of knowing with data visualizations
(Chapter, 2020)Data visualizations combine numeric data with visual representation, and these modes allow them to express certain kinds of knowledge more easily than others. This chapter uses examples of historical data visualizations ... -
‘We are unlikely to return to the same world, and I do not want it to destroy my future.’ Young people's worries through the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study aims to explore what worries youth were having during the seventh to ninth week of the COVID-19 lockdown. Our findings build on the responses to an open-ended survey question from 1314 youths. The worries covered ... -
“We don’t throw stones, we throw flowers”: race discourse and race evasiveness in the Norwegian university classroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do university students and instructors engage in discussions about race and racism in a country where speaking about race is perceived as racist? In Norway, as in much of Europe, the concept of “race” is silenced, ... -
“We in the Mojo Community” – Exploring a Global Network of Mobile Journalists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Mobile journalism is a fast-growing area of journalistic innovation that requires new skills and work practices. Thus, a major challenge for journalists is learning not only how to keep up with new gadgets but how to advance ... -
“We teachers really got together”. The school as an educational community during the Covid-19 pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The schools’ closure and the adoption of distance learning (DL) during the Covid-19 pandemic deeply changed Italian schools’ teaching and organizational practices. This article investigates how a micro-universe of four ... -
“We Want to Be Educated!” A Thematic Analysis of Gifted Students’ Views on Education in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Norwegian educational policy focuses on inclusive, equivalent, and adapted education for all. We followed procedures for an inductive thematic approach to explore the educational experiences of seventeen gifted students ... -
The weak variable sharing property
(Journal article, 2023)An algebraic type of structure is shown forth which is such that if it is a characteristic matrix for a logic, then that logic satisfies Meyer's weak variable sharing property. As a corollary, it is shown that RM and all ... -
Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A 15-yr duration record of mooring observations from the eastern (>70°E) Eurasian Basin (EB) of the Arctic Ocean is used to show and quantify the recently increased oceanic heat flux from intermediate-depth (~150–900 m) ... -
Weakening of the Atlantic Niño variability under global warming
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Atlantic Niño is one of the most important patterns of interannual tropical climate variability, but how climate change will influence this pattern is not well known due to large climate model biases. Here we show that ... -
Wearing-off at the end of natalizumab dosing interval and risk of MS disease activity: A prospective 1-year follow-up study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Natalizumab effectively prevents disease activity in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by binding α4 integrin and inhibiting leukocyte migration to the central nervous system. We recently reported an association between ... -
Wearing-off at the end of natalizumab dosing intervals is associated with low receptor occupancy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02)Objective: We aimed to investigate whether wearing-off symptoms at the end of the natalizumab dosing interval were associated with clinical and demographic patient characteristics or natalizumab receptor occupancy (RO) on ... -
Web-based vestibular rehabilitation in persistent postural-perceptual dizziness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives: The aims of the study were to investigate the feasibility and preliminary outcome of a Norwegian web-based self-help application for vestibular rehabilitation (VR) among patients with high symptom burden of ... -
Weekday time in bed and obesity risk in adolescence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-11)Introduction Sleep curtailment is associated with obesity in children, but few studies have investigated this relationship in a longitudinal sample of adolescents. The aim of the present study was to examine the longitudinal ... -
Weeks in Pregnancy on Maternal Iodine Status and Infant Neurodevelopment: Mommy's Food, a Randomized-Controlled Trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency is still present in many countries, particularly in pregnant women. Observational studies suggest that mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy may be associated ... -
Weight changes and mobility in the early phase after hip fracture in community-dwelling older persons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose Hip fractures in older persons are associated with reduced mobility and loss of independence. Few studies address the nutritional status and mobility in the early phase after hip fracture. The objective of the ... -
Weight gain during treatment course of allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with hematological malignancies affects treatment outcome
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background aims Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is an effective treatment for patients with hematological malignancies; however, allo-HSCT does not come without the cost of treatment-related ... -
The weight spectrum of two families of Reed-Muller codes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We determine the weight spectra of the Reed-Muller codes RM (m− 3, m) for m ≥ 6 and RM (m − 4, m) for m ≥ 8. The technique used is induction on m, using that the sum of two weights in RM (r −1, m−1) is a weight in RM (r, ... -
Weight-based victimization and physical activity among adolecents with overweight or obesity: A scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Increased physical activity engagement plays a vital role in preventing and treating overweight or obesity in children and adolescents. Research has found that adolescents who are overweight or obese tend to ... -
Weighted average regression and environmental calibration as a tool for quantifying climate-driven changes in vegetation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Aims: Studies of the climatic responses of plant assemblages via vegetation-based environmental reconstructions by weighted averaging (WA) regression and calibration are a recent development in modern vegetation ecology. ...